Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [conj] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In bird species where the males display to attract the females ( the peacock is a classic example ) , extravagant plumage has developed because the best-endowed males have always mated more frequently . |
| 2 | Indeed , he has commented that the only sensation that he recalls from his youth ( which did not evaporate on his coming of age ) was one of persistent desire . |
| 3 | Tom Cannon was paid £15,000 simply as a retainer in the 1880s and Vamplew has calculated that the best riders in the period 1870–1914 might earn £75,000 in their careers . |
| 4 | The Uranium Institute , based in London , has calculated that the 816 tonnes of HEU that might be released from American and Soviet disarmament could take the place of 166,000 tonnes of natural uranium , roughly three years ' worth of world demand . |
| 5 | Using the Government 's own figures , the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux has calculated that an unemployed claimant aged between 18 and 24 — as most students are — would have received £31.15 a week income support during the 12-week vacation : a total of £373.80 . |
| 6 | Skil , like several other traditional power tool manufacturers , has realised that the outdoor market has been largely untapped in recent years . |
| 7 | I do not think that Boots ' sponsorship helped the RNA , because it served to shut out the rest of the trade , but now that Boots has withdrawn and a new sponsor is being sought there is an opportunity to boost the award . |
| 8 | A court has heard that a former Swindon Town player tried to blackmail his ex-chairman over tax-free payments to staff . |
| 9 | The jury has heard that the 28-year-old Londoners paid a friend Pounds 10,000 to act out the robbery in a New York hotel room in March 1990 . |
| 10 | Now , the Berlin Wall has fallen and the barbed wire rusts away . |
| 11 | Friends of the Earth has claimed that the British government is failing to alert the public adequately when ozone levels in the atmosphere cause a deterioration of air quality . |
| 12 | The Forestry Commission has claimed that the red squirrel faces extinction in southern Britain , and continuing decline in the north , unless large areas of contiguous conifer forest are maintained . |
| 13 | The Exxon oil company has claimed that the massive spill from the Exxon Valdez tanker in 1989 has had little lasting effect on the wildlife of Alaska 's Prince William Sound . |
| 14 | In the Eastern states of Europe , the traditional form of communism has collapsed and the communist party and state apparatus has been superseded by a new cohort of political leaders . |
| 15 | Perhaps Mr. Cleaver has forgotten that the British authorities turned away from Palestine ships laden with hopeless would-be immigrants who were forcibly , returned to Europe and the death camps . |
| 16 | The encouraging figures come at a time when the number of young people in the county has dropped while the older population has increased . |
| 17 | Paco has only just begun to speak openly of reincarnation : ‘ The time has come when the Seventh Sea is going to open . ’ |
| 18 | The Scotsman newspaper has reported that the National Trust for Scotland has decided to stop publicising three venues because increasing visitor pressure there was harming either the building fabric or the ground . |
| 19 | As one example of the need for urgent action , the magazine 168 Chasa has reported that an abandoned mine near Sofia is filling with water which in turn is contaminating groundwater . |
| 20 | The independent Law Commission has recommended that a commercial tenant should in general be freed from any future liability under a lease when he assigns away his interest under it . |
| 21 | The Reviewing Committee has recommended that a further £15–20 million be made available to buy works of art threatened with export for the nation . |
| 22 | The board has recommended that the interim dividend be maintained at 2.5 pence per share . |
| 23 | In a recently published report , a Common Land Forum ( set up by the Countryside Commission ) has recommended that the general public should be granted a right of legal access to all areas of common land . |
| 24 | ‘ The Royal College of Psychiatrists has recommended that the Mental Health Act 1983 should be amended to incorporate a community supervision order . |
| 25 | It has recommended that the Austrian Chancellor , Mr Vranitzky , press for immediate closure of the plant . |
| 26 | Interested parties will find in it an array of ( other people 's ) opinion that can be dazzling , for postmodern methodology has ensured that a little bit of everything ( from a quartermaster 's appraisal of the value of art to a consideration of Santa Barbara 's peacocks ) is included . |
| 27 | The growth of retirement and , more recently , early retirement has ensured that an increasing proportion of older people have been excluded from the labour force over the course of this century . |
| 28 | The mergers agreement , and progress on a range of other single market issues such as rules for public procurement , the harmonisation for testing and market veterinary medicines and the labelling of irradiated food , were seen as a triumph for the French presidency of the EC Council of Ministers which has ensured that the legislative timetable for the 1992 single market remains on course . |
| 29 | The vehement reaction to what was a unique challenge to accepted procedure has ensured that the basic pattern of newspapers working hand-in-hand with political parties and politicians continues to thrive . |
| 30 | The total has grown since the present service was set up in 1948 , although in fact the proportion of children in care per thousand of the total population under 18 has not altered so much . |